Submit
Send the original file. Not a re-encode, not a screen recording, not a screenshot of your phone’s gallery: the file the camera wrote, as it came off the device. Every copy compresses the picture again and can strip the details that record when and on what it was made, and those are often exactly the frames and fields we need to look at.
What to send
- The original file. If it is too large to attach, send a link to a download and keep the original where it is.
- The device. The phone, camera, doorbell or security system it came from, and the model if you know it. A rolling shutter, a night-vision mode and a low-frame-rate security camera each leave their own marks in the frame, and the device tells us which to look for.
- The date, the time and the place. As exactly as you can. The room, not just the town.
- What you saw, before what you think it was. What you saw with your own eyes, if anything, and what you only found later on the screen. Those are two different accounts, and both matter.
- Whether we may publish it, and how you want to be credited. By name, by initials, or not at all.
A story without footage is welcome on the same terms: where, when, who else was there, and what each of you saw.
What happens next
We look at it closely: frame by frame if it is footage, at full size if it is a photograph. We may write about it. If we do, we will say what we can see and what we cannot, which may not be what you hoped.
We do not pay for submissions. We read everything that arrives and promise nothing beyond that. We never publish anything you send, or your name, without your permission.
The door was open before
The original Ghosting.tv, the Los Angeles screening series that carried this name from 2013 to about 2018, took submissions at this same address, from animators and video artists who wanted their work on its screen. The series is gone, and its record is in Origins. The door is still open.
Send it to info@ghosting.tv. What you send, and your details, are handled as the privacy policy describes.